“The Things They Carried” was about parts of Tim O’Brien’s life. It holds details about his life leading up to the war, during the war and after war. In the book he tells about one very important story in particular, in my opinion. The first happens before the war, after he got drafted into the war he got up enough courage to run away and move to Canada. He was on his way to Canada, stopped, and found a motel that this wise old man owned. He stayed there a while and the old man never questioned him or tried to get information from him, there was just an understanding between them. One day they went fishing and the old man took him to Canada and gave Tim a chance to run away, but he didn’t, he was too scared of what people would think about him. The next day he left and went back home, soon after he got sent to war.
The old man from the summary is named Elroy Berdahl. He is a very important character from the book in my opinion because he helped Tim …show more content…
I liked how most of the stories were about life changing events like on pages 149-154, he tells about how after his friend hung himself in the locker at YMCA, he wanted to dedicate a chapter of his book that he was writing at the time to his friend, Norman Booker. But before Norman Booker died he wrote a letter to Tim and it said that he wanted Tim to write the story of how Kiowa died because he had a way with words and Norman couldn’t quite find the words to describe everything like Tim could. Tim then tried to write about it but he felt like he couldn’t quite get Norman’s side of the story. He added this in the story because it was very significant to his life. I liked how he also added stories that were spoken to him and not just ones that he was in. This showed he was a very understanding and a good listener because he told the stories just as detailed as his
The old man from the summary is named Elroy Berdahl. He is a very important character from the book in my opinion because he helped Tim …show more content…
I liked how most of the stories were about life changing events like on pages 149-154, he tells about how after his friend hung himself in the locker at YMCA, he wanted to dedicate a chapter of his book that he was writing at the time to his friend, Norman Booker. But before Norman Booker died he wrote a letter to Tim and it said that he wanted Tim to write the story of how Kiowa died because he had a way with words and Norman couldn’t quite find the words to describe everything like Tim could. Tim then tried to write about it but he felt like he couldn’t quite get Norman’s side of the story. He added this in the story because it was very significant to his life. I liked how he also added stories that were spoken to him and not just ones that he was in. This showed he was a very understanding and a good listener because he told the stories just as detailed as his